Well-attended reception

The kind of traffic queues that accompany an international EDM concert were witnessed outside the NSCIs dome last Friday at the wedding reception of Kresha and Vanraj progeny of Kishore and Kintu Bajaj and Manju and Hemant ZaveriThe Bajajs are a popular social couple with links to various fields business restaurants films and we spotted Salman Khan Neetu and Rishi Kapoor and Sanjay and Maanyata Dutt restaurateurs like Sunil Joy Kapur Sudhir Bahl and AD Singh actors Naseeruddin and Ratna Pathak with sons Imaad and Vivan representing the Bada sahib Baldev Pathak legacy of yore and a very glamorous Tina Ambani accompanied by handsome son Anmol close friends of the Bajajs who stayed till the very endVanraj Zaveri and Kresha BajajSalman KhanNext week another prominent SoBo betrothal kicks off at the same placeSunil Joy KapurRishi and Neetu KapoorPriyarsquos paradigm shiftNice to meet former MP Priya Dutt recently Clad in a denim shirt and denim blue jeans encasing her never ending legs the Congresswoman we felt looked markedly better than shersquod looked in a long time We politicians do not to realise the price we pay for our lifestyles she said When I lost the election it sounded awful but in many ways it was the best thing that happened to me mdash I caught up with my family my health said Nargis and Sunil Duttrsquos youngest child who appears to have inherited their legacy of public servicePriya DuttAnd the best part is that Irsquove adopted a tribal village in Maharashtra where Irsquom involved hands on on a daytoday basis in the lives of its peopleCould it be the absence of realpolitik or the presence of her dear brother finally home mdash that was responsible for her glow The juryrsquos out on that oneBollywood rules OKLast week we found ourselves talking to Miss America 2014 the attractive and articulate Nina DavuluriNina Davuluri PicAFPHailing from a somewhat stereotypical background father mdash a doctor mother an IT technologist this daughter of a first gen NRI couple went on to embrace the American dream but admits that she always felt she didnrsquot fit inThen she did the one atypical thing she entered a beauty pageant and opted to perform a Bollywood dance for her talent roundI chose the Dhoom Taana number from Om Shanti Om said Davuluri Like any shy Indian girl from Jabalpur or Jharkhand would Whatrsquos more I hadnrsquot informed my parents that I was entering the pageant she admitted shylyNo two ways about it mdash girls will be girlsJoyful Delhi weddingAs families go it is one of the Capitalrsquos preeminent ones which is why the wedding of the New Yorkbased lsquoChippyrsquo Ishaan Ahluwalia son of Vidyun Singh and Sanjeev Ahluwalia is something of a red letter day this weekend in Delhi The Ahluwalias are a renowned clan of diplomats and bureaucrats Sanjeev himself is a distinguished IFS officer with brother the terribly posh Montek Singh resigning as Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission in 2014 Vidyun herself is part of the dynamic team of Asha Kochar and Vidyun fashion show organisers in India Spotted amongst the elegant crowd in attendance were the likes of Sid Basu Rohit Bal JJ Vallaya and Rajesh Pratap Singh amongst othersRohit Bal JJ Vallaya and Rajesh Pratap SinghOverheardMany Indian tycoons glad they r in India where nothing can happn to thm regardless of how much thy ripoffmdash Tweeted by Rajeev Chandrasekhar in response to headlines about Iran billionaire tycoon Babak Zanjani sentenced to death for corruptionDangling ConversationsThe Oolong teafavouring SoBo hostess was clucking away when we met her But what we assumed to be her faulty dentures were in fact tiny sounds of delight she was emitting When a person is down one hates to knock them further of course she saidOf course we said But this does not apply when they do not display an iota of remorse a smidgen of regret at their willful and deplorable behavior she said We have to go soon we reminded her What one is beginning to realize she continued with an irritated look is that it was in fact not a case of an industrialist who lived a life of runaway decadence but a street hood who used every trick in the book to pass off as an industrialistForget the banks and their largesse she said Forget the tax payerrsquos money thatrsquos been siphoned abroad to safe havens forget the unpaid employees mdash some who killed themselves in despair forget the fact that the resultant smear on business has resulted in collateral damage impacting the particular sectorForget the forget please we said as we looked around to see if shersquod been reading The Economist againApparently thanks to his street smart survival skills the beleaguered barrel is holding enormous leverage on the international company that bought him out In the form of somehandy taped conversations she saidTaped conversations We said sitting up so suddenly that the pooch sleeping at her feet awokeYes Apparently they got a sweet deal by agreeing to overlook some epic higgledy piggledy in accounting so they could buy cheap she explainedBut little did they imagine that when the shit hit the fan as it has mdash therersquos nowhere they can hide because our friend taped conversations about this arrangement that would be extremely awkward if made publicWoahYes said the OTFSH pleased that her revelation had elicited such a response So now a large multinationalrsquos reputation not to mention that of a very senior international business head is hanging from a tape Watergate Redux We said Watermixed with spiritsgate redux said the OTFSH before tinkling her little bell and calling Boy zara hot water jaldi lao please